Optometrist - Sam's Optical

Sam's West • Rockford, IL

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Provides evidence-based vision care to ensure patients' health and well-being by recommending and prescribing medications and other treatment options (e.g., red eye, LASIK surgery, cataract surgery) using evidence-based care guidelines. Delivers routine vision care, educates patients and store associates on eye health (including contact lens care, disease state management, and safety factors), recommends appropriate patient follow-up, and consults with other health professionals to prepare and coordinate patient care plans in accordance with optometry scope of practice per state board. Provides patients with appropriate referrals as needed to ophthalmologists and other healthcare professionals and follows up with the patient and other health professionals regarding any outstanding diagnostic tests or other patient information as needed. Evaluates patients' health condition across and within the full vision center scope of service (e.g., visual acuity, visual function, and eye health, keratometry, refraction) to ensure proper diagnosis and treatment by reviewing complete patient medical history information and performing comprehensive eye examinations. Examines eyes utilizing observation instruments and pharmaceutical agents to determine visual acuity and perception, focus, and coordination, as well as identify signs of vision defects (e.g., injury, disease, abnormality). Prescribes, fits, and adjusts eyeglasses, contact lenses, and other vision aids. Suggests, orders, interprets, and assesses diagnostic tests (e.g., glaucoma testing, macular degeneration, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)). Provides additional vision treatment (e.g., foreign body removal) as necessary. Develops treatment plans based on patients' clinical presentation using evidence-based care guidelines. Represents the company in vision care and patient engagement by delivering exceptional customer service through all patient interactions. Maintains and updates patient information in vision center systems (e.g., BOSS) in a timely, accurate, and confidential manner. Assists vision center staff (e.g., opticians) on best practices and procedures. Ensures adherence to state, local, and federal healthcare regulations and Walmart vision center guidelines. Performs administrative and retail tasks for the vision center as necessary (e.g., financial transactions, patient registration, retail transactions) and works with internal stakeholders (e.g., pharmacist, clinics, store management) and external stakeholders (e.g., external health care professionals) to ensure overall coordinated and integrated patient care experience and high-quality customer service. Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs, developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices. Analyzes costs and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans. Determines and supports resource requirements. Evaluates operational processes, measures outcomes to ensure desired results, identifies and capitalizes on improvement opportunities, and promotes a customer environment and demonstrates adaptability and sponsors continuous learning. Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps, recruiting, selecting, and developing talent, supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning, and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent. Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices, developing consequences for violations or noncompliance, and supporting the Open Door Policy. Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives, engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives, and supporting associate efforts in these areas. Respect the individual: Builds high-performing teams, embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, creates a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging, creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform. Respect the individual: Works collaboratively, builds strong and trusting relationships, communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence. Respect the individual: Attracts and retains the best talent, empowers and develops talent, and recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments. Act with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, models the Walmart values to support and foster our culture, holds oneself and others accountable, supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving). Act with Integrity: Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent. Serve Our Customers and Members: Delivers results while putting the customer first, considers and adapts to how, where, and when customers shop, and applies the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans. Serve Our Customers and Members: Makes decisions based on data, insights, and analysis, balances short and long-term priorities, and considers our customers, fellow associates, shareholders, suppliers, business partners, and communities when making plans. Strive for Excellence: Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, demonstrates courage and resilience, and encourages learning from mistakes. Strive for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements, adopts and encourages the use of new technologies and skills, and supports others through change.

Requirements

• Doctoral degree in Optometry (OD) from accredited optometry school.
• Licensed optometrist in good standing in state of practice.

Nice To Haves

• Completion of a post-graduate year one (PGY-1) in area of emphasis (for example, family practice, low vision care, pediatric or geriatric optometry, ocular disease.

Responsibilities

• Provides evidence-based vision care to ensure patients health and wellbeing by recommending and prescribing medications and other treatment options for example red eye LASIK surgery cataract surgery using evidencebased care guidelines
• Delivers routine vision care
• Educating patients and store associates on eye health including contact lens care disease state management and safety factors
• Recommending appropriate patient followup
• Consulting with other health professionals to prepare and coordinate patient care plans in accordance with optometry scope of practice per state board
• Providing patients with appropriate referrals as needed to ophthalmologists and other healthcare professionals and following up with patient and other health professionals regarding any outstanding diagnostics tests or other patient information as needed
• Evaluates patients health condition across and within the full vision center scope of service for example visual acuity visual function and eye health keratometry refraction to ensure proper diagnosis and treatment by reviewing complete patient medical history information and performing comprehensive eye examinations
• Examining eyes utilizing observation instruments and pharmaceutical agents to determine visual acuity and perception focus and coordination as well as identify signs of vision defects for example injury disease abnormality
• Prescribing fitting and adjusting eyeglasses contact lenses and other vision aids
• Suggesting ordering interpreting and assessing diagnostic tests for example glaucoma testing macular degeneration Optical Coherence Tomography OCT
• Providing additional vision treatment for example foreign body removal as necessary
• Developing treatment plans based on patients clinical presentation using evidencebased care guidelines
• Represents the company in vision care and patient engagement by delivering exceptional customer service through all patient interactions
• Maintaining and updating patient information in vision center systems for example BOSS in a timely accurate and confidential manner
• Assisting vision center staff for example opticians on best practices and procedures
• Ensuring adherence to state local and federal healthcare regulations and Walmart vision center guidelines
• Performing administrative and retail tasks for the vision center as necessary for example financial transactions patient registration retail transactions
• Working with internal stakeholders for example pharmacist clinics store management and external stakeholders for example external health care professionals to ensure overall coordinated and integrated patient care experience and high quality customer service
• Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs
• Developing communicating building support for and implementing business strategies plans and practices
• Analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans
• Determining and supporting resource requirements
• Evaluating operational processes
• Measuring outcomes to ensure desired results
• Identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities
• Promoting a customer environment and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning
• Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps recruiting selecting and developing talent supporting mentorship workforce development and succession planning and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent
• Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices developing consequences for violations or noncompliance and supporting the Open Door Policy
• Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives engaging key stakeholders in the development execution and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives and supporting associate efforts in these areas
• Respect the individual: Builds highperforming teams embraces differences in people cultures ideas and experiences creates a workplace where associates feel seen supported and connected through a culture of belonging creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform
• Respect the individual: Works collaboratively builds strong and trusting relationships communicates with impact energy and positivity to motivate and influence
• Respect the individual: Attracts and retains the best talent empowers and develops talent and recognizes others contributions and accomplishments
• Act with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity ethics and compliance models the Walmart values to support and foster our culture holds oneself and others accountable supports Walmarts goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates customers members and the world around useg creating a sense of belonging eliminating waste participating in local giving
• Act with Integrity: Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble selfaware honest fair and transparent
• Serve Our Customers and Members Delivers results while putting the customer first considers and adapts to how where and when customers shop and applies the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans
• Serve Our Customers and Members Makes decisions based on data insights and analysis balances short and longterm priorities and considers our customers fellow associates shareholders suppliers business partners and communities when making plans
• Strive for Excellence: Displays curiosity and a desire to learn takes calculated risks demonstrates courage and resilience and encourages learning from mistakes
• Strive for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements adopts and encourages the use of new technologies and skills and supports others through change

Benefits

• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance
• Paid time off benefits include PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
• Live Better U is a company paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree